Wadendorf Castle

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Wadendorf Castle
Main building of Wadendorf Castle (2006)

Main building of Wadendorf Castle (2006)

Creation time : First mentioned in 1453
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Received or received substantial parts
Standing position : Free nobles
Place: Plankenfels -Wadendorf
Geographical location 49 ° 53 '50 "  N , 11 ° 19' 38"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 53 '50 "  N , 11 ° 19' 38"  E
Height: 370  m above sea level NN
Wadendorf Castle (Bavaria)
Wadendorf Castle

The castle Wade village situated on a hill in the same place near the Wiesent . Wadendorf is a district of the municipality of Plankenfels in the Upper Franconian district of Bayreuth in Bavaria . There is a two-story main building, the southern curtain wall with two round towers and remains of the gate system.

history

The hilltop castle was first mentioned in a document from 1453, with which the Bamberg Bishop Anton von Rotenhan (1431-1459) approved the brothers Bartholomäus and Andreas von Königsfeld to convert their house in Wadendorf as a castle. It is therefore assumed that a mansion already existed at that time. The new castle was given to the bishop of Bamberg as a fief .

In 1525 the castle was badly damaged in the Peasants' War . The owner Klaus von Königsfeld was awarded compensation of 2060 guilders.

In 1580/1581 Wilhelm von Königsfeld sold the rule to Sebastian Neustetter-Stürmer , bailiff in Hassfurt . In 1590 the rule came through purchase to Pankraz von und zu Mengersdorf and in 1601 to Daniel von Aufseß .

In 1638 the castle was destroyed in the Thirty Years War . The time of the later reconstruction is not known.

In 1650, Hans Wilhelm von Aufseß zu Wüstenstein sold the rule to Eva von Schlammersdorf . Wadendorf remained in the possession of the von Schlammersdorf family until 1785. In that year the rule came through purchase to Baroness Johanna Sophia Christine von Egloffstein . Since 1786 Egloffstein's entire property, the complex came into civil ownership in 1852. Extensive restoration work was carried out between 1986 and 1990.

  • Gate system (2006)

  • Circular wall with round towers (2006)

literature

  • Hellmut Kunstmann : The castles of north-western and northern Franconian Switzerland . Reprint, Kommissionsverlag Degener & Co., Neustadt an der Aisch 2000, ISBN 3-7686-9265-5 , pp. 195-200.
  • Toni Eckert, Susanne Fischer, Renate Freitag, Rainer Hofmann, Walter Thousand Pounds: The Castles of Franconian Switzerland - A cultural guide . Gürtler Druck, Forchheim o. J., ISBN 3-9803276-5-5 , pp. 175-178.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see also list of Frankish knight families # K